Posts Tagged ‘Big Finish’

It’s time to start the year in review. In previous years I listed my books read that year, and I still intend to do that this year. The list will be quite a bit shorter this year, though, because I made the decision at the beginning of 2010 not to listen to any audiobooks. I even canceled my Aubible subscription. Why? Well for years I’ve been buying audio dramas, mainly from Big Finish and primarily Doctor Who related. But I never listened to many of them because most of my spare “listening” time was taken up with audiobooks. So I decided to take a year and see how many audio dramas I could get through. How did I do?

Like this:

This came out a few days ago, but I finally got around to watching it. If your a fan of Big Finish’s Bernice Summerfield series, you might be interested in this new animated short , which falls canonically between series 10 and series 11. If you’ve never read or listened to any of Benny’s adventures, maybe this will get you interested.

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Today Big Finish Productions released the much-awaited Doctor Who audio adventure Cobwebs, a a four part story by Jonathan Morris. It’s noteworthy as it is the first time in 26 years that the 5th Doctor ensemble of Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Mark Strickson (Vislor Turlough) are all together for a Doctor Who adventure of any kind. Here’s the trailer:

It’s the first of 3 audios featuring the 4 actors together. As much as I like the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories, there’s always been a sense of incompleteness when the crew was doing separate audio stories or companion chronicles. I just listened to it, and it was like coming home again. I was grinning the entire time. Plus the story is a very good time travel one, complex without being mind-numbing.

It’s been a good week for free Doctor Who stuff! Once again, Doctor Who Magazine has teamed up with Big Finish Productions to offer an exclusive audio adventure free for DWM readers.

Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – Freakshow
A new adventure for the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Tegan
Starring Mark Strickson as Turlough and Toby Longworth as Winklemeyer

Aboard the TARDIS, Turlough records a testimony about a recent adventure. A trip to Buzzard Creek in the USA, where he encountered the sinister Winklemeyer, who claims to have discovered a cure for every known illness…

If you missed it on page 12 of the 31 March issue, hit up www.bigfinish.com/dwm and enter the code 5844. The offer has been running for awhile and expires 26 May 2010, so don’t delay.

While you’re there, why not subscribe to some of their ranges? I currently subscribe to two.

If you’ve never tried any of the Doctor Who audio series from Big Finish before, you’ve been missing out on some good stuff. Now’s your chance to give it a try – for free! The 19 August issue of Doctor Who Magazine (Issue #411) has a link and code to Big Finish Productions website. According to the site:

There’s a brand new audio adventure that readers can download for free that’s exclusive to Doctor Who Magazine! The story forms part of the Companion Chronicles series, in which the Doctor’s friends and allies recount previously untold adventures.

The Mists of Time features the Third Doctor and his companion, Jo Grant. When Jo finds herself on a distant planet in the far future, she’s greeted by an archaeologist, Calder, who is marooned on the deserted world. With no memory of how she arrived, Calder reminds her that they’ve met before – and she starts to recall a tale of ghosts and murders and a terrible Time Lord secret…

The Mists of Time stars Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Andrew Whipp as Calder.

The story is full length, clocking in at 1:27:43. Follow the link and enter code 01795 to download. While there, check out their other special DWM exclusive offers, as well as the rest of their audios.